Bale Mountains

Declared in 1970, Bale protects the largest Afroalpine moorland on the whole African continent, a unique tropical high-mountain ecosystem that supports the world's greatest concentration of Ethiopian wolf, the most threatened wild canid on the planet and confined entirely to a handful of isolated plateaux in the Ethiopian highlands. The park also holds the mountain nyala, an antelope endemic to Ethiopia and only described scientifically in 1908.